Famous quotes containing the word uncover:
“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.”
—John Irving (b. 1942)
“Do not uncover the pot until the time is right.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover in their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)